South Africa's ANC committed to coalition despite budget disagreements

Fikile Mbalula, the Secretary-General of the African National Congress addresses the media during a press conference at Chief Albert Luthuli House, the headquarters of the African National Congress in Johannesburg, South Africa, April 1, 2025. REUTERS/Ihsaan Haffejee/File Photo

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -The African National Congress remains committed to South Africa's multiparty government, it said on Tuesday, after its main coalition partner, the Democratic Alliance, voted against the budget and went to court to try to block it.

The deepening schism between the ANC and DA - South Africa's biggest and second-biggest parties - threatens to sink the country's first attempt at coalition rule in its 30-year democratic era and has left investors rattled.